Improvement in seed-planters



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS DASER, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SEED-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 11,642, dated September 5, 1854.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LoUIs DASER, of the city of \Vashington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Im-- provements in Hand Seed-Planters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section cutting in the diameter-line kit of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a horizontal or plan section in the line i z of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a detail section cutting horizontally in the linejj, also of Fig. 1. Where like parts are shown like letters are used as reference.

In the drawings, a a is the drill, consisting of a stout heavy hollow rod with a flat circular portion, a a, extending out vertically, forming the bottom plate of the closed cylinder A.

Above the platen a. a small distance a flared or conical hole, 0, is made in the rod on a, spreading from the inner to the outer surface of the same. Below this, and opposite, another hole is bored, having a female screw cut, into which the screw d is received. The cylinder A rests upon the plate a a, and is covered in by a sheet plate equal in size and shape to the bottom plate. It is the covered opening in the top of the cylinder.

Passing some distance down and secured properly in the head of the drill is the long arm or handle B, (shown broken oif in the drawings,) onto which the person working the planter takes hold.

At the lower end of the drill the seeder bis located, formed of a round casting that fits loosely in the bore of the drill, and sufficiently lengthy to cover the flared hole cand extend out and some distance beyond the termination of the drill. On the side of theseeder, and in a line running down from the flared hole 0, is an elongated cut, f, sloping gradually and curving from its bottom upward to the surface of the seeder at either extremity. Opposite this, and also in the side of the seeder b, a slot, e, is made, into which the screw cl comes. Upon the head of the seeder a spring, g, presses,

which serves to keeprthe seeder protruded or forced out.

In operating, the seed is passed into the cylinder A through the opening h. The person then passes over the ground, forcing the bottom of the drill a a into the earth by means of the long handle B, which is usually worked with both hands. When the drill is in this manner forced down, the seeder b is carried up and the cut fconnects with the hole 0, making a channel through which the seed passes, collecting in a certain quantity in the out, which retains it until the planter is being drawn out of the hole, when the spring 9 forces the seeder out, and the collection thus held in the cut is deposited in the hole made. The slot 6 in which the screw d acts serves as a gage and governor to the movements of the seeder b, and the flared hole 0 is made in this way, so that in the sudden descent of the seeder the seed will be forced back into the cylinder, instead of being cut.

To avoid anything like complication in the general arrangement, I have for different kind of seed seeders having the cutf and slot a varying in size, so as to accommodate such varieties-say four in number.

The advantages which I claim in this arrangement are, first, by making these holes in this manner the seed is deposited below the upper crust of the ground, and will have a medium hot damp soil in which to lie; second, during rain such natural or prepared manure that may be upon the ground will wash into the holes made, not only acting as a generating agent, but will form a comparatively light covering over the seed, through which it could grow more readily than if the ground were plowed and in lumps; third, in new uncultivated lands the settler can obtain a very good harvest without clearing, which would be required if the plow were to be used; fourth, in new cleared lands it is highly serviceable, as the plow could not act successfully among the stumps, roots, 850.; fiflh,in cultivated lands it dispenses with the great labor of plowing and the attending expense, and only needs the easy labor of one person; sixth, in limitedsized inclosures, as gardens, &c., it is better adapted than the plow, being simple,light, and

portable, and managed with a comparatively spring g, and cylinder A, substantially in the slight exertion. manner and for the purpose as herein fully Having thus fully described the construcset forth;

tion, operation, and advantages of my handplanter, what I claim as new, and which I desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- \Vitnesses: I

The seeder b, cutf, and slot e, in coinbi- WMLBR. STEWART,

nation with the drill a a, the flared hole 0, L ML. WILLIAMS.

LOUIS DASER. 

